Netflix Outage Sunday Night Was Not Caused by Hackers

Greg Sandoval at CNet confirmed that the Netflix outage Sunday night was not caused by hackers.

"Good morning," wrote Steve Swasey, Netflix's spokesman. "It was a technical issue that we fixed."

The good news is that Netflix wasn't taken out by marauding hackers. Sony, Sega, and a number of other business and government sites have been hit by hackers in a high-profile spate of cyberattacks this spring, and some in the blogosphere speculated that Netflix may have succumbed to a similar attack.